Energy Projects

April 29, 2008 (AFP) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday launched a 1.
buy doxycycline online buy doxycycline online no prescription
2-billion-dollar project largely funded by Tehran to upgrade Sri Lanka's sole oil refinery, officials said. Ahmadinejad and Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse planted an ebony sapling to launch work at the Sapugaskande refinery, just outside the capital Colombo.

The four-year upgrade will triple Sri Lanka's refinery capacity to 150,000 barrels per day from the current 50,000 barrels.

Iran, which supplies 70 percent of Sri Lanka's oil needs, has agreed to pay for 700-million-dollars of the upgrade, petroleum minister A.H.M. Fowzie said at the ceremony.

He said it would make Sri Lanka self-sufficient in aviation fuel and tar.

Bad weather, however, prevented the Iranian leader from inaugurating the Tehran-funded 450-million-dollar Uma Oya irrigation project in Wellawaya, south-east of Colombo.
buy nolvadex online http://annalsofhealthresearch.com/classes/core/php/nolvadex.html no prescription

Work on the hydro power project was instead launched by Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ratnasiri Wickremanayake and senior officials from the visiting 15-member Iranian delegation.

Once completed in four years, the hydro power project will add 100 megawatts to the national grid, officials said.

Subscribe
Notify of
guest
0 Comments
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments
Top
0
Would love your thoughts, please comment.x
()
x